The first table below looks at the demand for the MySQL DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MySQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MySQL Database Administrator
Rank 384 392 427
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +35
Contract jobs requiring a MySQL DBA 5 13 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.023% 0.048% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.052% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 1
Average daily rate £338 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.78% -1.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20317 24960 28380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.22% 92.51% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13701 16102 18232
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 621 671
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
MySQL DBA
England

MySQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MySQL DBA across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London MySQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

MySQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MySQL DBA across the London region.

London MySQL DBA Daily Rate Trend

MySQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MySQL DBA across the London region.

London MySQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

MySQL DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL DBA within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +13 1 £275 -31.25%
MySQL DBA
England

MySQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited MySQL DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with MySQL DBA in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) MySQL
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
3 6 (40.00%) Oracle
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (33.33%) UNIX
5 4 (26.67%) Data Security
5 4 (26.67%) Replication
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
6 3 (20.00%) Python
6 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (20.00%) PCI DSS
6 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
7 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
7 2 (13.33%) SaaS
7 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
7 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (13.33%) VoIP
7 2 (13.33%) Apache
7 2 (13.33%) Clustering
7 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
8 1 (6.667%) Nagios
8 1 (6.667%) DSL
8 1 (6.667%) Project Management
8 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
8 1 (6.667%) LAMP
8 1 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (6.667%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (6.667%) Oracle Coherence

MySQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited MySQL DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with MySQL DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) VoIP
2 1 (6.667%) DSL
2 1 (6.667%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) MySQL
2 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.667%) Pentaho
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (6.667%) Riak
4 1 (6.667%) Couchbase
General
1 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Replication
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
2 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
2 2 (13.33%) Clustering
3 1 (6.667%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.667%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Data Security
2 3 (20.00%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.667%) Project Management
3 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.667%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (6.667%) Perl
3 1 (6.667%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) Nagios
1 1 (6.667%) OpenView
1 1 (6.667%) Data Guard
1 1 (6.667%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) HP
3 1 (6.667%) Jaspersoft